Park Dining vs Mouse Times
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Park Dining
This app helps you secure dining reservations at popular park restaurants. Create custom alerts for specific restaurants, dates, times, and party sizes. Receive instant push notifications when a reservation becomes available, allowing you to book directly.
- Create dining alerts
- Select restaurant, date, time, party size
- Receive push notifications
- Direct booking link
- View all alerts
- View alert status
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We all know that getting reservations at our favorite park restaurants is challenging. Get notified you when a reservation becomes available at your favorite park restaurant. Simply create a dining alert by selecting the restaurant, the date, time and number of diners and sit back and wait to get notified when a reservation becomes available. You can book for multiple restaurants and times. Park Dining looks for openings based on your requests and immediately sends you a push notification when an opening becomes available. Features • Create an alert for one reservation in the free version • Create multiple alerts for multiple reservations in the paid version • View all your alerts on one screen • View the status of your alerts on the Status screen • Receive a notification when an opening becomes available • Click on the notification to directly book on the restaurant website • No need to create an account The app creator, Payal Seth is not affiliated with or officially connected to The Walt Disney Company or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries in any way. Please note that notifications are sent when your booking becomes available. If it is not available, then no notification will be sent. Please visit our Terms and Conditions at the link below. https://parkdining.blogspot.com/2022/02/terms-and-conditions.html Privacy Policy https://parkdining.blogspot.com/2022/02/privacy-policy.html
Mouse Times
This app provides real-time wait times for attractions at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. It offers a clean interface with options to sort rides and share wait times. The data is updated frequently to ensure accuracy.
- Real-time wait times for Disney parks
- Light/Dark mode options
- Sort rides by wait time or alphabetically
- Share ride wait times
- Minimalist interface
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Mouse Times is a minimalist live wait times tracker for Walt Disney World and Disneyland attractions. Attractions without current data (closed, refurbishment, or no info) are hidden to keep the list focused on available attractions. Set personal Wait Time Alerts to get a push notification when an attraction drops to your desired wait time. Features: • Live wait times for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, Disneyland, and California Adventure • Wait Time Alerts — get notified when an attraction reaches an acceptable wait time • Light and Dark Mode • Sort by wait time or alphabetically • Share a ride's wait time — great for messaging your party or journaling the day • Available in English and Portuguese
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mouse Times at 100% against Park Dining's 28%. Mouse Times also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.6) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Park Dining's advantage is iOS requirement (14.1 vs 17.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Park Dining sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Mouse Times sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mouse Times holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mouse Times has 106 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Park Dining's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mouse Times's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Park Dining | Mouse Times |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (7 ratings) | 4.9 (106 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 106 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Payal Seth | Roman Thompson |
Customer experience
Park Dining
Mouse Times
Bugs and requests
Park Dining
Reported bugs
13 issues- Next button on Create Alert screen does nothing
- App crashes when saving an alert
- App provides fake alerts
- App does not send claimed alerts
- App shows incorrect availability
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- App does not allow picking times
- App has bugs and is useless
- App takes money without permission
- App says reservations are available when they are not
- App does not work after purchase
- App does not update after payment
- Cannot get past setup screen
- Cannot figure out how to contact support for refund
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to cancel subscription
- Clearer cancellation process
- Developer response to issues
Mouse Times
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Park Dining
- Premium Member$9.99
- One Time Payment$9.99
- One-time Payment$12.99
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- One time payment$17.99
- One-time payment$19.99
Mouse Times
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- Buy Me a Donut$4.99
- Buy Me Breakfast$9.99
Questions
Is Park Dining free?
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